Bioware ditch Mass Effect Andromeda DLC for "two" new Dragon Age games after Anthem?

Bioware ditch Mass Effect Andromeda DLC for "two" new Dragon Age games after Anthem?

Mass Effect Andromeda was meant to be a brand new start for the famous Bioware series but despite launching 21 March 2017, less than five months ago, it seems as though the developer is already planning for life without Andromeda.

A Luke warm reception and a less than positive commercial and critical response to the release lead EA to put the franchise “on ice”, while also shutting down development studio BioWare Montreal.ans have still been wildly hoping for more expansions to the game in the form of added DLC.

But even then, fans have still been wildly hoping for some sort of expansion to the game in the form of added DLC.

You'd think given the style of game and the numerous ways in which the game's storyline could be built on that it would be a given. Much in the same

Much in the same way something like Fallout 4 added significant add on's to an already enormous open world.

But, it doesn't appear as though EA has any such plans and interestingly EA barely mentioned Mass Effect Andromeda during its first quarter earnings call in July.

In fact, according to Eurogamer, the game was only mentioned four times, whereas Battlefield was mentioned 20 times. Madden 36 times and FIFA 41 times.

Which again, doesn't look great. Forget DLC. if a massive game like Mass Effect only yields four mentions, four months after release, you know something has gone desperately wrong.

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It was reported earlier this year that Bioware only had a small team still working on the game and that they would be solely focussed on multiplayer projects.

This includes Mass Effect Andromeda APEX missions, which recently introduced a new race known as the Batarians, as well as a new map and a special weapon.

But extensive story DLC seems completely out of the question.

Despite this horrendous negativity surrounding Mass Effect Andromeda, Bioware could be about to move forward with several new Dragon Age projects.

Bioware's Dragon Age boss Mike Laidlaw suggested that BioWare has plans for another two Dragon Age games and that there is currently no set plan to end the series.

"There is no planned ending for DA," he explained.

"There is an evolving plan that tends to look 2 games ahead or so."

"Thus, I could tell you what -could- be in a theoretical game 5, if there were a theoretical game 4 happening."